Northumberland Almshouses

The Northumberland Almshouses, built between 1884 and 1887, were designed by Smith & Brodrick for the Hull Charity Trustees, who relocated from a previous site. The buildings are constructed of red brick with roughcast and sham timber-framing, ashlar dressings, and renewed plain tile roofs, with brick ridge stacks. The windows are mostly original, featuring glazing bars and casements. The architectural style is Domestic Tudor Revival.

The almshouses are arranged around a grassed quadrangle, with ranges of dwellings, generally two storeys in height. A gatehouse and entrance tower are centrally located on the south side, opposite the chapel. Single-storey service ranges extend northward from the rear corners. The gatehouse features a Tudor-arched carriage entrance with wrought-iron gates and a brick-vaulted passage. Above the entrance is a stone oriel window, and behind it, a square clock tower topped with a parapet. The roof of the clock tower has a steep, swept profile supported by a round-arched wooden arcade. A canted stair tower with a similar roof is adjacent to the gatehouse.

Flanking the gatehouse, the main ranges of gabled dwellings extend eight bays. At each end of this range are angled corner gables flanked by hexagonal turrets with swept roofs. The returns have nearly symmetrical ranges featuring six gables. The chapel, located on the north side of the quadrangle, includes a nave, chancel under a continuous roof, a bellcote, a vestry, and a west porch. It has Perpendicular-style windows, including a three-light east window and two single-light south windows. The nave has four two-light windows to the south and three to the north. The west porch has a doorway above which is a window. The interior of the chapel features arch-braced roofs with wall shafts, a chancel arch with responds, a tiled reredos, and a stained-glass east window. A double arch is located on the north side, and the nave has two arched doorways and a traceried ashlar pulpit.

To the east of the chapel is a large, gabled and hipped corner block, two and three storeys high, five bays wide, constructed on a grander scale than the other dwellings. It has an angled north-east corner and a timber-framed rear elevation. A dwelling range, four bays wide, with a double-hipped projecting centre is situated to the west of the chapel. The east and west sides of the quadrangle, each seven bays wide, are symmetrical, with a gabled central projection flanked by hipped wings. On the south side, the gatehouse is flanked by double-gabled blocks, a recessed bay, and then a hipped block.